Now the coldest is the weather, and the hottest is news about damage to Nord Stream natural gas pipelines. But do you believe that the lives of many Chinese have changed because of the sabotage of the natural gas pipelines? Why did the distant Nord Stream in Europe affect the Chinese? First, let’s take a look back at the event together:

The Nord Stream pipelines are always «the second life» for Europe, which wants a natural gas supply from Russia.

On September 26, those two pipelines were damaged. Because of this, in the current winter, natural gas transmitted from Russia will not reach Germany, and millions of people will suffer from cold.

Without Nord Stream pipelines, the price of natural gas in Europe will rise by almost 20%. In the energy crisis, household appliances help a lot.

The butterflies of the Baltic Sea have given their influence on workers of Chinese electric blanket companies.

Household electrical appliances, including an electric rubber hot bottle and an electric blanket, are hot sellers in Europe.

Previously, the hot selling season of the production of exported heaters ended in the middle of September. Still, importers have further added orders to Chinese enterprises, making products day and night to meet the demand. And the deadline for those orders extends to 2023. On the American website Reddit, «electric sherpa blanket» is already one of the hottest words.

Europeans invented the first electric blanket. There are two sayings about this:

The first is: at the beginning of the 20th century, due to the fury of pulmonary tuberculosis, many infected with the disease were forced to sleep under the sky. In 1912, with sympathy for those sick, American doctor Sidney Russell sewed copper wires into a woollen sherpa throw blanket, the first electric blanket.

The other is: in February of 1948, a British carpenter was bothered by the cold, and he accidentally found that he was not electrocuted but felt warm when he put his hand on a resistor. So he put some resistors in the bed to keep himself warm. However, he found that the resistors often broke as he turned on the bed. So he sewed the resistor with the quilted mattress and then applied for intellectual property, which he eventually sold to a UK quilt factory.

Even the overseas company, Sony of Japan, started its business by manufacturing electric blankets. However, the electric blanket was not stable and safe, limited by technology then.

As a result of further development of technology, in the 80s of the last century, the electric blanket entered China. At that time, China already had a deep emotion about heating, and diligent Chinese enterprises not only successfully held the production technology of electric blankets but also became listed companies in this field.

In the tide of heaters awakened by the current energy crisis, the Rainbow Electric Appliance Group, the first listed company among Chinese electric blanket companies, has twice reached the limit of exchange rate increase since September 21.

• Have you already got the electric blanket from China for the coming winter?
• We are waiting to see if the butterflies of the Baltic Sea will create a new miracle.